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020			_a9780198822653
082			_a149.6094309034 _bBEI
100			_aBeiser, Frederick C.
245			_aWeltschmerz : pessimism in German philosophy, 1860-1900
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2018 _aOxford :
300			_axi, 301 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b22.49 _cGBP _d105.90
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFrederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to circa 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. Weltschmerz' is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. He examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them all: whether life is worth living.
650			_aPessimism
650			_aPhilosophy, German
650			_aGermany
650			_aSchopenhauer theory
650			_aAesthetic
650			_aEgoism
650			_aEudemonic
650			_aNeo-Kantian
650			_aHegelianism
650			_aMaterialism
650			_aPantheism
650			_aPositivism;
650			_aSuicide
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